Question

Algebra 1 Check Answer Please

Answer 1

The answer is the third one.

The way I think through these problems is that where you multiply (-7x), you use addition, and where you use addition (-4), you multiply.

The answers added together will equal the second number, -7, and multiplied will give you the third, -4.

What you had chosen as the answer was close. But 7.53+-0.53 equals positive 7, not negative. However they do round to -4 when multiplied.

The correct answer, -7.53 and 0.53, do equal -7 when added together and equal -4 when multiplied.